Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday applied for a permanent stay of the proceedings in his case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) , claiming that a fair trial is impossible due to the prosecution’s corrupt witnesses and intermediaries. Kenyatta is charged with crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in inciting the violence following [...]
Spain’s National Court accepted an appeal by two Spanish pro-Tibet rights groups to include former Chinese president Hu Jintao in an investigation of alleged genocide against Tibetans. In accepting the appeal, the court ruled that Spain was competent to handle the case because one of the activists, Tibetan monk Thubten Wangchen, is a Spanish citizen. [...]
Human Rights Watch reported Friday that rebel fighters in Syria committed war crimes by killing at least 190 civilians and abducting more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages that took place of August 4. The report, titled, “‘You Can Still See Their Blood’: Executions, Indiscriminate Shootings, and Hostage Taking by Opposition Forces in [...]
The European Parliament said Thursday that EU member states’ complicity with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition program has led to violations of fundamental rights and must end immediately. Members of European Parliament pointed to the recent disclosures surrounding the National Security Agency PRISM program and revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden as evidence of [...]
The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on Thursday indicted Hassan Merhi on charges including terrorism and intentional homicide in a 2005 truck bombing that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. Merhi is charged with helping to create a video claiming false responsibility for the attack, the coordination of the video’s [...]
Iraqi authorities on Thursday announced the execution of 42 people convicted on terrorism charges. The executions took place over the course of two days and bring the total number of executions in Iraq this year to 132. The government of Iraq has been resorting to executions in the face of increased violence in the country. [...]
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was arrested on Thursday for charges relating to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi who died during an operation ordered by Musharraf on Islamabad’s Red Mosque, which left more than 100 dead. Musharraf, however, alleges that the arrest was politically motivated. He has been on house arrest for [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephanie Rainaud, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2014, is the author of the fourth article in a 10-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Rainaud exposes the controversy associated with license plate readers…
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia on Thursday upheld Canada’s law against doctor-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith for the Supreme Court of British Columbia had ruled last year that the provisions of Canada’s Criminal Code unjustly violate the rights to life, liberty and equality. She reasoned that physician-assisted suicide could be executed if adequate [...]
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Wednesday indicted Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Zahid Hossain Khokon in absentia on war crimes charges stemming from the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The charges include genocide, torture, abduction and confinement, coming to a total of 11 charges with involvement in at least 13 counts of war [...]
